what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, it's been over a week now and emotions ran high as you can imagine the past seven days. but no more than yesterday as folks were finally allowed to at least see what their homes and neighborhoods looked like. at one point they were going to allow them in buses but they decided to have a kara van of personal vehicles. still 3,000 people are evacuated. but that's down from 32,000. we caught up with one family that went in back to see their neighborhood yesterday and here's what they had to say about that experience. >> it looked like a war zone. it was just -- it was completely caved in, didn't even look like a house. it was bad. and it just -- the smell, it smelled like smoke and you got down in it and it smelled like ash. it was awful. >> reporter: they are not alone, 346 homes completely destroyed, the most destructive wildfire in colorado history. they have a pretty good handle on this one and evacuation orders may be lifted entirely as we go through the rest of t